I get most of the furniture I fix up for free, but this is a teak dining table by the Finnish firm Asko that I bought off Craigslist for my birthday last year.
Within an hour of owning it I destroyed all four legs by driving into a low garage door with the table strapped to my truck. Let's say I was disappointed. Meanwhile, it stayed in the garage for the better part of a year, directly beneath our apartment's shoddily plumbed bathroom. You can imagine where this is headed.
Anyway, I finally managed to swipe the still-intact legs off of another table that someone else destroyed, and adapted them to fit my special table. I sanded off some of the let's-just-call-it-water damage, did some spot staining, and polished the rest.
I won't say the hybrid is better than either of the tables that died to give it life, but I'm glad I didn't give up on this beauty. And maybe I now know how Homer Simpson felt when he carved his own chili spoon—from a bigger spoon!
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